The heavy gunfire resumed Saturday, February 26 in Abidjan neighborhood of Abobo, a stronghold of Alassane Ouattara. According to witnesses, the shooting resumed in early afternoon in the "PK-18" in the heart of deadly clashes this week. The firing had almost ceased since Friday morning in the neighborhood that residents continued to flee on Saturday, and where the government accuses Gbagbo to make the "rebels" allied with Alassane Ouattara, President recognized by the international community.
Defence Forces and Security (FDS) loyal to Gbagbo to fight an armed group. The camp Ouattara denies any involvement. "The area is empty", said a resident after a night under curfew, a measure introduced for the weekend by the Gbagbo regime. On the third day of flight in the northern business capital, "the mini-cars were able to enter and are attacked" by mothers and their children, told this young woman, herself part of the family join in Yopougon (west).
"People think the neighborhood will be bombed," said one driver remained in Abobo. An assessment of the fighting was still impossible to establish, but several witnesses reported clashes very deadly. "The work continues" in Abobo, told reporters the chief of Staff of the FDS, General Philippe Mangou.
Called by the local press "commando invisible", "mysterious" or "ghost", the group, including armed with rocket launchers, which attacked the SDS since January in Abobo before intensify activity in recent days, continues to generate queries. For SDS, it is composed of elements of the "rebellion" of the Forces Nouvelles (FN), which controls northern Iraq since the failed coup of 2002 and joined forces with Alassane Ouattara in the beginning of the crisis resulting from ballot November.
But the camp is Ouattara denies any involvement, saying it is people who took up arms or SDS rose from the other side. In the political capital Yamoussoukro theater for the first time fighting with heavy weapons on the night of Thursday to Friday, calm has returned. In the "Great West" region near Liberia and unstable for years, the situation was uncertain following the decision by the FN from two localities on the borders of the southern area controlled by the Gbagbo camp.
FDS assured Saturday having driven the enemy. The past week has given an almost surreal to mediation efforts led by the African Union to resolve the crisis, which has already killed at least 315 deaths according to UN and driven tens of thousands of Ivorians to flee the country. Four Heads of State - Mohamed Aziz OuldAbdel (Mauritania), Jacob Zuma (South Africa), Idriss Deby (Chad) and Jakaya Kikwete (Tanzania) - Ivorian rivals met earlier this week in Abidjan.
Charged initially to develop solutions "binding" on the parties by the end of February, they will consult again on March 4 in Nouakchott. "We're not out of the woods", agreed by the Mauritanian president. 
Defence Forces and Security (FDS) loyal to Gbagbo to fight an armed group. The camp Ouattara denies any involvement. "The area is empty", said a resident after a night under curfew, a measure introduced for the weekend by the Gbagbo regime. On the third day of flight in the northern business capital, "the mini-cars were able to enter and are attacked" by mothers and their children, told this young woman, herself part of the family join in Yopougon (west).
"People think the neighborhood will be bombed," said one driver remained in Abobo. An assessment of the fighting was still impossible to establish, but several witnesses reported clashes very deadly. "The work continues" in Abobo, told reporters the chief of Staff of the FDS, General Philippe Mangou.
Called by the local press "commando invisible", "mysterious" or "ghost", the group, including armed with rocket launchers, which attacked the SDS since January in Abobo before intensify activity in recent days, continues to generate queries. For SDS, it is composed of elements of the "rebellion" of the Forces Nouvelles (FN), which controls northern Iraq since the failed coup of 2002 and joined forces with Alassane Ouattara in the beginning of the crisis resulting from ballot November.
But the camp is Ouattara denies any involvement, saying it is people who took up arms or SDS rose from the other side. In the political capital Yamoussoukro theater for the first time fighting with heavy weapons on the night of Thursday to Friday, calm has returned. In the "Great West" region near Liberia and unstable for years, the situation was uncertain following the decision by the FN from two localities on the borders of the southern area controlled by the Gbagbo camp.
FDS assured Saturday having driven the enemy. The past week has given an almost surreal to mediation efforts led by the African Union to resolve the crisis, which has already killed at least 315 deaths according to UN and driven tens of thousands of Ivorians to flee the country. Four Heads of State - Mohamed Aziz OuldAbdel (Mauritania), Jacob Zuma (South Africa), Idriss Deby (Chad) and Jakaya Kikwete (Tanzania) - Ivorian rivals met earlier this week in Abidjan.
Charged initially to develop solutions "binding" on the parties by the end of February, they will consult again on March 4 in Nouakchott. "We're not out of the woods", agreed by the Mauritanian president.
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